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Elena walked into the boarding house, tucking a piece of hair behind her ear. She was looking for Stefan, having got a text from him earlier saying it was urgent for her to come. She got a text like this nearly every week, what with Klaus, Katherine and Elijah hot on her tail. She was popular in the vampire world and it didn't make her struck with pride, more quivering fear.

"Stefan? You here?" She called out to what seemed the empty boarding house. Vampires moved so quickly and silently, she never knew who was in the house.

She closed the door behind her out of habit and headed in the direction of the living room. Damon was passed out on the couch, a glass of scotch in his hand.

She sighed and headed towards him, if Stefan was home he'd of been giving her a welcome kiss by now. She assumed by now that he must have been out hunting and would be back shortly. Or was out kicking Katherine's ass.

Elena took the scotch glass out of Damon's hand slowly, not to wake him.

"Oh Damon, why must it always come to this?" She muttered under her breath, disappointed he couldn't just stay on one track, he was either on a killing spree, moping over Katherine or getting drunk out of his mind.

Damon sat bolt upright all of a sudden, grabbing Elena's hand that was holding the scotch glass. Elena gasped, not expecting the sudden movement. She swore he was asleep, 'damn vampires' she thought to herself.

He snapped his head in her direction, raising an eyebrow above heavily bloodshot eyes. They were so bloodshot that she could have mistaken him for being vamped out, except the veins around his eyes and teeth weren't appearing.

"I'll be having that back if you don't mind," Damon muttered, taking a swig of scotch. He sighed in relief and lay back down on the couch.

Elena sat down on the coffee table in front of the couch Damon was occupying, hoping her heart rate would go down. Any other vampire wouldn't scare her from sitting bolt upright, even a human wouldn't. Damon was different; he could make her heart race with just a smirk. It was more annoying to her that he knew her heart rate would race.

"Do you know where Stefan is? He texted me and was supposed to be here?"

Damon dug beneath him in the folds of the seat cushions on the couch, going "Aha!" when he finally pulled out Stefan's phone, handing it to her.

"Damon, what's all this about? Has something happened?" She had confusion written across her face whilst she questioned him.

Damon within a blink of an eye was now sitting forward, his face inches from hers.
"I texted you, using Stefan's phone." He smirked, proud.

"Why would you do that?"

He breathed cool air across her face leaning in closer. She closed her eyes and sighed.

"Because of that." Damon said, leaning backwards, smirking.

Elena got up all of a sudden in a huff, defensively crossing her arms.

"I don't know what you are talking about," she raised her head in the air, walking across the room to get distance from Damon.

Damon got up, slowly walking over to her at human speed. He wiggled his hips as he walked; causing Elena to close her eyes again to block him out.

"You and I both know we have chemistry, there is no need to deny it…" He was up close and personal with her know, more than before if that was somehow positive. Elena moved backwards, trying to cause some space between them and found herself bumping against the wall behind her. Damon tucked the piece of hair that had fallen out back behind her ear again, smirking whilst his ice blue eyes told a different story.

Elena pushed against him, dodging past him. Damon laughed, pleased.
She couldn't afford to be backed against a wall by Damon, not when she was with Stefan. She loved Stefan. She did. But there was something… something dangerous and passionate when she was with Damon. She couldn't step into that territory. She tried to mentally shrug what Damon had said off, distracting herself with Stefan.

"Damon, stop that. Where is Stefan?"

"He's in the tomb," Damon replied, as if he was just casually talking about the weather.

Elena scrunched her face up in confusion, "But he can't be in there, Katherine is in there… Why would he go in there willingly?"

Damon flung his hands up in the air, exasperated. "I don't know Elena, maybe St Stefan has chosen her."

Elena's face now formed into a scowl. "Don't talk like that Damon, Stefan loves me, not Katherine. He wouldn't do that to me."

Damon raised his eyebrows, amused by Elena trying to defend him yet again. "Fine, Elena. Whatever helps you sleep at night." He started off in the direction of the basement, muttering loud enough for her to hear "don't let the door hit you on the way out."

Elena muttered a profanity under her breath, not caring if Damon heard or not. She headed for the door, annoyed. She was going to head to the tomb straight away, she needed to clear this up with Stefan, get Bonnie involved, try to get him out someway.

She pulled out her phone and rang Bonnie, opening the door.

"Hey, Elena. What's up?" Bonnie replied, her voice slightly off.
'Probably just the reception,' Elena thought to herself.

"Bonnie, Stefan's in the tomb-" Elena suddenly crashed into something that felt like glass at the door. She tried again, pausing.

"Bonnie… I think I may have a problem here too. I'm at the boarding house and I can't get out. Literally." Elena had panic laced in her voice.

"About that…" Bonnie trailed off, sounding guilty.

"What, Bonnie? What? Have you heard something that I haven't?"

"Not quite," Bonnie bit her lip from her end, feeling the whole world crushing on her shoulders. This wasn't going to be easy.

"Then what?" Elena questioned her, confused.

"I may have cast a spell... I want all this to go away Elena, the supernatural stuff. I love magic but I don't want the drama of vampires."

"What does that have to do with the fact I can't get out of the boarding house?"

"I cast a spell to keep Stefan in the tomb and you at the boarding house."

"What? Bonnie, why would you do that to me? It's not your place to make the decision of who I'm in love with and then take them away from me!"

"Elena, can't you see? If Stefan and Katherine just admit to each other, they can be together and leave Mystic Falls. And if you stay at the boarding house without anyone being able to get in or out, you'll be free of both of them, including Damon."

"Bonnie!" Elena had rage building up in her chest, she couldn't believe this. She couldn't believe Bonnie would do this, she was absolutely deluded.

"You do realise Damon is in the boarding house with me? You've locked me away with him, just because you don't want vampires around anymore!" Elena was yelling now, trying to break the barrier from stopping her from the outside world. It wasn't working and it was just adding to her rage.

"Oh." Bonnie's voice fell, she hadn't thought of Damon in this plan properly. She slapped herself in the side of her head, cursing. Elena was unhappy as it was with her, let alone locking her with Damon inside a house.

"Elena, I'll fix this, I'll get Damon in the tomb and they can all stay there if necessary, think of it! You could be with Matt and be normal."

"Bonnie, I can't believe you. First you want to take Stefan away from me, now Damon too?" Elena shook her head; too many thoughts were processing currently.

"I thought you didn't care about him? Months ago, you wanted him out of your life," Bonnie questioned her best friend; she just couldn't control herself around vampires, clearly. She was doing the best for her, she thought to herself.

Elena had gone from yelling to screaming down the phone now, "I'm not having this conversation with you anymore Bonnie, you get rid of those spells, now! I mean it, fix it! This is over afterwards. We're over."

"If only you could say that to Stefan…" Bonnie muttered under her breath. Elena still heard her and snapped her phone shut, dropping it to the floor and tensing her hands.

She was feeling betrayed, annoyed, confused and felt like she had her organs ripped out of her and her stomach being used as yarn for a knitting project.

She backed against the wall next to the door, slowly dropping to the floor. She raised her knees, hugging her arms around them and resting her head against her knees. She tried to take deep breaths, to control the emotions running through after the aftermath with Bonnie. She was red in the face and could feel stray bits of hair sticking to her forehead.

Damon came out from the basement after downing a blood bag, having heard everything. He sped to her, standing over her. It pained him to hear her talk about Stefan, he wasn't sure how to react to Elena talking about having him taken away as well as Stefan. He knew Elena cared; she'd admitted that before but only as a friend. The chemistry between them and the way she reacted to him with her body, even involuntarily sometimes, there was still something there.

"Looks like we'll be spending some time together," Damon said.

Elena raised her head, tears rolling down her face, telling the whole story of how she was feeling currently with her eyes. "Not now Damon, please, just not right now."

Damon backed against the wall next to her, sitting down. Elena leaned into him allowing Damon to wrap an arm around her; he knew she needed a friend right now. He could question her later about what she said. He heard sniffling from Elena, looking down he saw tears rolling down her cheeks, her chest heaving.

Why did his baby brother have to cause her this much pain when he was away from her? It was wrong, he thought to himself.

"Thank you," Elena whispered to him, her tears now coming in floods.
Damon closed his eyes and breathed in deeply. He loved this girl in his arms and it was tearing him up inside that she was crying and he couldn't make her world right.

"You're welcome," he said, so quietly Elena couldn't hear him over her tears.

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